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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 47402" data-attributes="member: 68">I just finished binging season 5 HOTEL. I enjoyed the first half more than I expected to. Really this should have been my favourite season. The vampire vibe, the slight 80s feeling with the music and the references to things like The Hunger and Interview With The Vampire. And I did get that and appreciate it but again ultimately I found the show to be a meandering mess.Sarah Paulson was wasted in HOTEL. I think she&#039;s a fantastic actress but her character Sally this season was a depressing dreary bore. I would have appreciated seeing more of how she was before she became a junkie. All we saw was her being a junkie, then crying with awful makeup. So annoying! I appreciated the noir feeling with the hardboiled cop too. Though I saw his &quot;twist&quot; coming a mile off.By about the 147th throat slashing I was like, this isn&#039;t even scary anymore it&#039;s tedious. I seriously would have found the vampires more frightening had they had fangs and been like the traditional vampire.There were things that were unresolved too. What happened to Bartholomew and who looked after him when the countess and everyone else was dead? I also found it silly that ghosts could actually kill people and walk around and be seen by the living when they felt like it.The main problem I have with the show is that it&#039;s too campy. That campiness makes it not scary after a point. I thought Murder House and Asylum were the least campy and therefor the most frightening. I have sort of given up on the show making any kind of logical sense now. I mainly watched on after a point because Matt Bomer and the rest of Ryan Murphy&#039;s posse of Pretty Boys was just so gorgeous. Like unbelievably so.Is Roanoke an improvement?This show is so frustrating for me to watch. I love most of the cast and I like some of the things it tries to do and some the stylistic choices by at the same time I hate how campy and nonsensical it is most of the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 47402, member: 68"] I just finished binging season 5 HOTEL. I enjoyed the first half more than I expected to. Really this should have been my favourite season. The vampire vibe, the slight 80s feeling with the music and the references to things like The Hunger and Interview With The Vampire. And I did get that and appreciate it but again ultimately I found the show to be a meandering mess. Sarah Paulson was wasted in HOTEL. I think she's a fantastic actress but her character Sally this season was a depressing dreary bore. I would have appreciated seeing more of how she was before she became a junkie. All we saw was her being a junkie, then crying with awful makeup. So annoying! I appreciated the noir feeling with the hardboiled cop too. Though I saw his "twist" coming a mile off. By about the 147th throat slashing I was like, this isn't even scary anymore it's tedious. I seriously would have found the vampires more frightening had they had fangs and been like the traditional vampire. There were things that were unresolved too. What happened to Bartholomew and who looked after him when the countess and everyone else was dead? I also found it silly that ghosts could actually kill people and walk around and be seen by the living when they felt like it. The main problem I have with the show is that it's too campy. That campiness makes it not scary after a point. I thought Murder House and Asylum were the least campy and therefor the most frightening. I have sort of given up on the show making any kind of logical sense now. I mainly watched on after a point because Matt Bomer and the rest of Ryan Murphy's posse of Pretty Boys was just so gorgeous. Like unbelievably so. Is Roanoke an improvement? This show is so frustrating for me to watch. I love most of the cast and I like some of the things it tries to do and some the stylistic choices by at the same time I hate how campy and nonsensical it is most of the time. [/QUOTE]

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